copier
Americannoun
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a person or device that copies
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another word for copyist
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of copier
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Angelo has to pretend he’s a copier salesman with business meetings in Rochester, N.Y.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
“There has long been this kind narrative that China is a copier of US innovation, but I think this was really showing there is transformative work coming out of AI labs.”
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
If she stepped away to rinse out her coffee mug or use the copier, she said, her supervisor would text her demanding to know where she was.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
The copier maker is reorganizing some of its leadership structure and plans on cutting 15% of its workforce.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
She marched across the room, with me tailing her neon pink flats, to a huge copier tucked away in an alcove.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
In some cases, online stores are set up by fraudsters who forge items by purchasing products before adding a fake signature - either by doing so themselves or employing the services of expert handwriting copiers.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
In the early 1990s, David Dorsey spent a year shadowing executives selling copiers for then-booming Xerox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The way computers, cellphones, stereos, printers and copiers were being disposed of previously was to simply add them to a landfill without reusing salvageable parts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
“We are never rehearsing where our collection is, where our copiers are,” she said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Everyone had BlackBerrys pressed to their heads and there was a sea of cables underfoot for all the computers and printers and copiers they’d brought in.
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
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